American Civil War Surgical Antiques

Research and Identification

Civil War Era Surgical Sets, Surgeon's Swords & Images

Civil War Surgeon Education & Medical Textbooks

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Dr. Echols is strictly a collector and researcher of pre-1865 surgical antiques.  He is not a dealer. 

 

Pre-1864 Civil War Medical Colleges

Wanted: Lecture cards and tickets for the medical college:

 

 University of Pennsylvania, Medical Department

Lecturers: Hutchinson, Carson, Woodhouse, Rush, Coxe, Dorsey, Physick, Horner, James, Dewees, Hodge, Hare, Wood, Jackson, Smith, Leidy, Wood, Wistar

TOPICS TYPICALLY LISTED ON LECTURE CARDS

Anatomy

Physic

Lectures and theory

Surgery

Medica materia or

Materia medica

Anatomy and   physiology

Chemistry

Surgical anatomy

Surgical pathology

Clinical surgery

Military surgery

Pathology and practical medicine

Medicine and surgery

Principals practice and operations of surgery

Department of medicine

Ophthalmology

Dermatology

Nervous diseases

Gynaecology

Venereal diseases

Laryngology

Obstetrics

Children

Midwifery

Orthopedic surgery

Comparative anatomy

Operative surgery

Physiology

 

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Lecture schedule, staff list, text book list

Front and back of same card

 

Enlarged staff list and required textbook list (from above card)

 

 

Instructor signatures on back of 1861-62 matriculation card

Front and back of same card

 

Instructor signatures on back of 1862-63 matriculation card

Front and back of same card

 

Philadelphia Hospital Matriculation cards 1861 and 1862

 

Henry H. Smith, M.D.               Joseph Leidy, M.D.                 Henry H. Smith, M.D.

 

Joseph Leidy, M.D.              William Pepper, M.D.                A. F. Penrose, M.D.                  Joseph Carson, M.D.

 

Samuel Jackson, M.D.

 

 

Henry H. Smith, M.D.

Front and Back of same card

 

R. E. Rogers, M.D.                  Joseph Leidy, M.D.             R. E. Rogers, M.D.

 

Hugh Hodge, M.D.                 William Pepper, M.D.                      H. Hodge, M.D.

Samuel Jackson, M.D.          Joseph Carson, M.D.


After serving as a full surgeon during the Civil War, Dr. Knox re-entered Univ. of Penn Oct. 1865-66

What's very interesting is Dr. Knox returned to the Univ. of Penn. medical college after having served as a full surgeon during the Civil War and repeated some of his courses before moving to Santa Barbara, California to practice until 1913

Matriculation card for 1865 with staff signatures

Front and back of same card

 

Frances G. Smith, Jr., M.D.

 

Joseph Leidy, M.D.                   Alfred Stille, M.D.               Joseph Carson, M.D.

 

  Henry H. Smith, M.D.                 R. E. Rogers, M.D. 


Post-Civil War AMA and other invitations to Dr. Knox

 

Front and Back of same card

    

 

Front and Back of same card

 

Dr. Echols Lecture Ticket Collection:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  | 6 |

 

Wanted: Medical college lecture tickets photo examples, pre-1864 from American medical colleges or schools

 

 

 

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American Civil War Surgical Antiques 

Research notes and a private collection

 Pre-1865 Civilian & Civil War Military Surgical Antiques

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